Domingo Flores 🏳️‍🌈

El silencio no me salvará…

Me with every other thing: I need to scrutinize this. I need to be aware I’m being marketed to. These corporations are untrustworthy. Me seeing final fantasy 7 revelation: oh the music oh the characters my favorites are all here thank you how many credit cards do you need

OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The only way AI can support learning is by being a terrible example worthy of every mockery, if not violence due to its terrible environmental and social ill effects. Using AI is the opposite of learning in many, many ways.

Serious question: Did the Buttcoin account over at Twitter got hacked? It's shilling an actual meme token. But I cannot tell if it's some kind of joke. It sucks if the original joke turned into what it was mocking, like doge. I also hope this post won't inundate my mentions with crypto scams...

Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

A child whose parents refused to “give them the autism label” is still, inexplicably, autistic as fuck, it has been rumoured.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

"To the male Julodimorpha bakewelli beetle, a beer bottle lying on the ground looks like the biggest, most beautiful female he has ever seen. He doesn't waste any time when he sees her. The male immediately mounts the object of his affection." www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-je...

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

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Speaking from experience (I work in procurement), someone needed a Specific Thingy. They asked ChatGPT, which spat out the wrong part number. I had to spend 30 minutes convincing them it WAS the wrong part number and 5 minutes calling the human vendor who knew exactly what we needed.

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Folks don’t seem to understand. It doesn’t MATTER that AI is shitty at your job. Your CEOs will happily deliver a 100x shittier AI version of your job if it means they don’t pay your salary. This is true no matter your pay level. But it’s coming sooner if you’re underpaid. Neutrality is complicity

these people know how extreme they are

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

I will say it again: We Salvadorans have a lot in common with the Palestinians. We both survived U.S. manufactured bombs, and Israel trained psycho-killers. We are brothers and sisters.

The most accurate headline about the PACER compromise I've seen yet www.techdirt.com/2025/08/15/p...

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.

The solution to age verification is simple. We must remove the Internet entirely from the public and make it only available behind a red curtain at the back of the video shop after you showed Dennis at the desk your id.

Newsletter: Crypto bills have passed the House with “2, 3, 4 o’clock” phone calls from Trump to give “a little love” to Republican holdouts, $6.9 million in crypto lobbying, and a $141 million midterm threat. The bills feature few consumer protections and destabilizing loopholes.

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Finding out torture doesn't work by first principles

Que duro es el el exilio.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

I'm only 10 minutes into this 90s anime & they hit me with this.

I don't think the tech industry realises how much it's pissing off the general public

Oh, so you can look to El Salvador for a preview of what the continuation of these policies look like.

“It’s just a Milkshake, what could go wrong?” Oh… silly optimistic me…

I’m not a prophet, this is just a logical inference. Understand that in fascism, violent repression of criticism is -the- way to stay in power. I encourage U.S. journalists and critics to take anti spyware measures. We already had this in El Salvador.

It’s incredibly damning that you have to go to the British press to learn this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

A certain person that is dear to my heart taught me that violence and specifically uppercuts to the jaw are a perfectly acceptable response to economic violence.

I am so old that the Pope was lively and healthy when I was in my 30’s. (My birthday is coming and I despise it)

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

The use case for AI in El Salvador is clear now: juicy contracts for Bukele’s buddies with no obligation on delivering anything remotely functional/useful: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/16/e...

We rescued a couple of stray kittens from an alley last Sunday.

My dog is very old. Most bullterrier dogs live around 10 years, but she’s pushing 12. She’s mostly blind and sleeps most of the day. But is still very strong and temperamental.

I’m now just going to post some nice pictures I took. Too much going on nowadays.

I want to reiterate to my US friends to look at El Salvador to get a sense of what’s coming in your future. Next up will be an even bigger escalation of police and militarized surveillance and repression, with mass incarceration.

The regime intentionally only allows photos of that prison (CECOT). As bad as it is, the regime knows letting journalists into the other jails would undoubtedly bring about Auschwitz comparisons. elfaro.net/en/202305/el...